Cigarette may have caused explosion in Rio.
A newsstand vendor who sold a hand to an employee testified to the police about the possibility; the owner of the Fil Carioca restaurant, which was operating illegally, and the head chef are suspects; three people died.
The Civil Police will hear the testimony tomorrow, the 15th, of Jorge Amaral, manager of the Filé Carioca Restaurant, which exploded yesterday in downtown Rio. Amaral is the brother of the establishment's owner, Carlos Rogério Amaral, who is also expected to testify tomorrow.
Detective Antônio Bonfim, responsible for the investigation, wants to question Jorge Amaral to investigate the possibility that the explosion was caused by a cigarette lit by the establishment's head chef, Severino Antonio Tavares, one of the three people killed in the accident.
According to the testimony of newsstand owner Jorge Luiz Rosa, another person may have lit a cigarette. The newsstand owner informed the police that moments before the explosion, an employee named Roberto bought cigarettes at his stand, according to information from Agência Brasil. The police also want to know from Amaral who the employee was who opened the restaurant yesterday morning.